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Musk admitted his posting wasn’t palatable to advertisers.

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[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 81 points 7 months ago (2 children)

“People are attacked all the time in the media, online media, social media, but it is rare that that actually has a meaningful negative impact on their life,” said Musk.

F this guy.

[–] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 27 points 7 months ago (1 children)

My god, he's actually playing the victim. What a loser.

He can't handle the consequences of his own dumbass actions.

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 15 points 7 months ago

He was born incredibly rich, he's never had a material consequence in his life.

Don't be fooled, his argument is not that his posts were bad it's that advertisers didn't like them.

[–] jkrtn@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Isn't this the same fragile removed who panicked that his private jet flights were being posted?

[–] Mic_Check_One_Two@reddthat.com 7 points 7 months ago

Many have theorized that the MuskJet Tracker account was the biggest reason he purchased Twitter. Because Twitter refused to ban the tracker, so Musk started rumbling about buying it, in an attempt to intimidate them into compliance. Then that backfired on him when Twitter forced the sale.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 37 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] TriPolarBearz@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Lmfao, perhaps.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 25 points 7 months ago

Billionaires and destroying the value of public media, name a more iconic duo

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago

Notably, Twitter facilitated communication during the arab spring, where the people organized to stand against and even overthrow several broken and corrupt government regimes throughout the middle east - including some participation in places like Saudi Arabia, for example.

Twitter's second largest investor after musk takeover... the kingdom of Saudi Arabia and it's de facto leader who, among other things, killed and dismembered an American journalist without consequence somewhat recently.

And now Twitter is about to be killed... and dismembered.

[–] Delphia@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago

Is this the robot becoming self aware?

[–] Mikufan@ani.social 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

How is that news? That's literally stating the obvious.

[–] lastunusedusername2@sh.itjust.works 17 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Musk stating the truth is big news.

[–] Mikufan@ani.social 3 points 7 months ago
[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

"You have said the actual truth"

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

~~Wasn't~~ Isn't

[–] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 8 points 7 months ago

So you're saying that it only took him this long to realize that saying "go fuck yourself" in an interview, about advertisers, was not taken well by those advertisers......

[–] Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 8 points 7 months ago

This is just part of his posturing that he “cares more about truth than money”.

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

He has become self aware. Will it change his behavior?

[–] metallic_substance@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

No. No it will not. In fact, it may make it worse

[–] lingh0e@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 months ago

He's not self aware. He's making himself the victim.

[–] Pavidus@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

Lemme know when he loses at least 9 zeroes from his wallet, then I might believe he's financially impaired.

And laugh.

[–] Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 months ago

Elon is shorting his own shit. It will take the normies eons to realize that and by that point he's already walking about with his 💰

[–] Justas@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

Just amazing that he actually came out and said that.

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

Tbf though, I don’t think he ever intended to make the platform profitable.